Chasing the Falconers Book 1 in the On the Run series by Gordon Korman. Fast and full of action! A brother and a sister escape to Lake Champlain area in VT after they escape from a home. Their parents are in prison and they are trying to prove their innocence. (He has a lot of other popular books, too!)

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. If you have not read ( Read more... )

Since the day I read Give a Boy a Gun, I’ve been a Todd Strasser fan. His writing is authentic and scary, sort of like that feeling you get when you are all alone and you think someone is watching you. You feel your hair standing up on your arms and little beads of sweat break out over your upper lip. “Is someone there? Hello?” His new novel, WISH ( Read more... )